Russell, Inventing The Flat Earth - Columbus And Modern Historians

Abstract

Not wholly unlike previous anniversaries of the European discovery of the Americas, the Columbian Quincentenary, now thankfully behind us, brought with it a cacophony of scholarly reinterpretations, intellectual, cultural, and social controversies, and myriad varieties of kitsch on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. Once the flotsam and jetsam generated by this celebration is brushed aside, what remains is a serious body of largely historical writing and therewith a restimulated popular interest in world history.